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Barbie fever has been sweeping the globe, as the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film about the beloved doll dropped earlier this week. The classic character is being played by Margot Robbie, with Ryan Gosling as Ken. However, several other actors and musicians play various iterations of the dolls, including Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie.

Alongside the trailer for the summer blockbuster, a make-your-own Barbie poster link went viral, with social media users adding both their own selfies and ones of celebrities to create new colorful graphics.

Given Barbie‘s reach, musicians got in on the trend, too, with Courtney Love being one of many to make a poster. “Uhhh no! But I think Greta Gerwig sly genius plot is going to make you rethink the whole Barbie narrative and.. still be FUN!” Love captioned. Her tagline read, “Barbie is NOT your friend.”

“(Also, I loathe Barbie/ Britney pink, that’s why I changed the Hole font. Stupid, but I’m an aesthete what can I say),” she added.

The Jonas Brothers also joined the trend, with Joe making his own poster to promote their recent song, “Waffle House.” Kevin did one, too, captioning his, “This Barbie… gets vacation eyes because you’re looking summertime fine.” Nick opted for “This Barbie…wants to Celebrate! while he’s got time.”

Continue scrolling to see some other musicians (or their account runners) who’ve made their own personalized Barbie posters.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

People weren’t initially all that keen about The Super Mario Bros. Movie. When it was announced the Minnesota-born Chris Pratt would be playing one of the Italian leads, many balked. There wasn’t much enthusiasm for his voice when they first heard it either. But online furor didn’t damage its box office. Quite the opposite.

As per Deadline, the second attempt to turn Nintendo’s biggest cash cow into a big screen motion picture worked, and how. It opened on Wednesday and it’s on track for a stunning $195.3 million domestic 5-day weekend. That’s a bit less than the five-day record-holder, namely Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which hauled in $200 million over the same stretch.

The record it did break is the one for the biggest opening for an animated film, at least globally. Mario is predicted to gross $368 million worldwide, which is more than even the five-day gross for Frozen 2, which Hoovered up $358 million back in 2019.

Deadline rounds up some more records Mario broke:

–Biggest global opening and 3-day domestic to date for 2023 outstripping Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($225.3M, $106.1M).

–Biggest opening ever for Illumination, besting Minions‘ 3-day of $115.7M and Despicable Me 2‘s 5-day of $143M.

–Second biggest opening ever for an animated film after Incredibles 2 ($182.6M)

So congrats to the Mario Bros. team, which managed to pull off a Mulligan, atoning for the disastrous first attempt back in 1993.

(Via Deadline)

Earlier this week, Halsey was officially announced as part of the cast for Ti West’s upcoming film, Maxxxine — a continuation of the universe featured in his movies X and Pearl. Now the pop star has opened up about their audition and casting process during her For The Record radio show.

In a true fated story, Halsey spills about discovering a spider that she feels was a sign, working out in their favor for good luck.

“So I went in and I auditioned just like anybody else. And I was in the audition room with the casting agent, and all of a sudden everybody kind of started freaking out a little bit because there was a spider in the room,” Halsey said. “And so I walked over and pick the spider up by its leg and put it in my hand and just took it out the door of the audition room and through the casting agency and out to the front and put it in a bush and then I walked back and everybody was kind of like, ‘Okay, you’re a freak.’”

“But I told them, as some you guys might know, I’m a witch and spiders are good luck, having a spider in the room is good luck, and I told them, this is a great sign for me,” they added. “I’m actually really happy about it because it’s good luck for me. And then it turns out he was, because I ended up getting the part and I was so exited about it. So I have to thank my little spider familiar friend because he did a little extra manifesting to help me get it.”

Because of this, Halsey also shared that they’ve considered getting a tattoo in honor of the little creature that helped her land the role.

Check out the full clip above.

Diddy treated his good buddy DJ Khaled to a surprise recently: a luxurious golf cart. Khaled thanked his friend for the gift by sharing a video on his Instagram feed of the moment he received it.

“If you gonna be the number one in golfing, we gotta make sure you’re number one in the golf cart, baby. Sh*t looks rich, sh*t looks healthy, looks like it fits my brother Khaled,” Diddy said.

“Let me be clear, Diddy just bought me a golf cart. He got me this as a gift,” Khaled adds in the clip.

Diddy explained more about the backstory behind why he gave Khaled a golf cart in his own Instagram post, noting that he saw just how hard his friend was working at the sport.

”I’m so proud of my brother @DJKhaled for all the work he’s putting in on the golf course,” Diddy captioned. “Enjoy my gift to you! I had to find the flyest of the fly for my brother! This ain’t no regular degular golf cart!”

“Thank you @diddy love brother beautiful gift !!!!!!! Grateful ! #LetsGoGolfing,” Khaled commented, once again expressing his sincere gratitude for the extravagant vehicle.

According to Billboard, Khaled is also reportedly filming a TV show about golfing. Diddy has also said that he “shot the pilot for Khaled’s new TV show,” giving some more insight to the duo’s relationship.

Check out DJ Khaled‘s new golf cart from Diddy above.

The 2024 election is a good year-and-a-half away but it’s already heated up. There are already a few candidates, mostly on the Republican side. One is a former commander-in-chief who’s been recently indicted on criminal charges and likes to spend his time trashing a guy who isn’t even formally in the race yet. In other words it’s not going so well. And one of Trump’s former cronies doesn’t think he’ll even go all the way.

As per Mediaite, Anthony Scaramucci — the financier who famously spent a thrilling 10 days as Trump’s communications director in the summer of 2017 — went on CNN to throw some cold water on his old boss’ political ambitions. He postulated that there are two things that will throw his third campaign off-balance: his legal woes and certain close family members ditching him this time.

“They want nothing to do with this campaign, Anderson,” said the Mooch. “And they were conspicuously absent from the courtroom. So, I think he’s gonna have a hard time. He may not even make it to the Iowa Caucuses – not because of anything other than the combination of the lawsuits and the family’s absence.”

It’s true that Trump was alone when he was arraigned last week, although both Jr. and Eric have continued acting as their father’s bulldogs. Ivanka, however, is done shilling for her dad.

However, the idea that Trump would actually drop out of the race shocked anchor Anderson Cooper, who asked Scaramucci point blank if he thinks that’s true.

“Well, he would fake an illness or something like that,” he replied. “He would come up with a very clever excuse, but, but–I don’t even–listen, you get hit with two more lawsuits like this, maybe another arrest and arraignment in Georgia and your family’s nowhere to be seen and you’re somebody like Donald Trump, it’s possible. You can’t rule it out.”

Of course, people in 2016 didn’t think Trump would go all the way, that he’d drop out once he realized he’d actually get the most powerful job in the world. And then look what happened. In other words, when it comes to the big guy, don’t rule out the worst case scenario.

(Via Mediaite)

The case can be made that the most disappointing team in the NBA this season was the Dallas Mavericks. After making it to the Western Conference Finals last postseason, Dallas ended up missing out on the playoffs altogether this year, as the team’s fate was sealed on Friday night with a 115-112 loss to the Chicago Bulls that officially eliminated them from play-in contention with a 38-43 record.

A number of important players did not play for the Mavs on Friday, while Luka Doncic played the first quarter and the opening possession of the second before getting shut down. There was a method to the madness — the team’s pick in the 2023 NBA Draft is top-10 protected, and missing the play-in means the overwhelming likelihood is they get the 10th pick in June — but the mere fact that the season even got to that point is shocking, especially considering the high-profile the team made when it was 28-26 to acquire Kyrie Irving.

And now, rumors are beginning to pop up about Doncic’s long-term future in Dallas. Despite being in the first year of a 5-year contract extension, Tim MacMahon of ESPN reports that there are real worries among the Mavericks that their MVP candidate could want out as soon as next summer if things do not start getting better.

There’s a strong sense of urgency within the organization to expedite the process before Doncic loses faith in the Mavs’ ability to build a contender around him. He’s wrapping up the first season of a five-year, $215 million supermax contract with a player option for the final season.

Team sources have acknowledged to ESPN that fear exists that Doncic, who publicly and privately expressed extreme frustration this season, could consider requesting a trade as soon as the summer of 2024 if Dallas doesn’t make significant progress by then.

Doncic is currently under contract through 2026-27, although the final year on his deal includes a player option. As MacMahon noted, Doncic previously summed up this year as “a very disappointing season.”

Metallica are just days away from dropping their new 72 Seasons album — and they have some surprises in store for fans. Not only are they having a global premiere in theaters, but the band will also takeover Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a special Metallica week. They shared the special news on social media, noting that they’ll be playing jams for Jimmy and his audience each night.

“In a first for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, it’s ‘Metallica Week,’ as we will be the musical guest each night, beginning on Monday, April 10, through Thursday, April 13,” they wrote on Twitter.

“We’ll be playing live for all four shows, and you’ll also catch us on the couch, chatting with Jimmy one night. Keep your eyes peeled for other sightings during the broadcast, as we really don’t know what else Jimmy will get us involved in!” they also added, according to NME.

The band has worked with Kimmel on projects in the past, as the publication noted that he was the host of the Helping Hands charity concert — where Metallica had performed “Nothing Else Matters” with St. Vincent last December. The event was streamed on Paramount+ and was “dedicated to creating sustainable communities by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services.”

72 Seasons is out 4/14 via Blackened Recordings. Find more information here.

Chlöe is still hot off the release of her solo debut album, In Pieces. On the album, she balances confident bops with harrowing accounts of heartbreak and insecurity. Chlöe is no stranger to the spotlight, so sharing these emotions wasn’t difficult for her.

But she’s chosen to make everyday life easier for herself in little ways. In an interview on The Tamron Hall Show, she revealed that she has opted not to have access to her own social media accounts.

“For a minute, I removed all socials off my phone and I just turned it over to my team,” she said. “Of course I’d make the content, I’d come up with the captions and I would just send it to them, but I got rid of my social media because I realized the things people were saying.”

She continued, saying, “The negative things people were saying about me were affecting me, and I noticed if I’d go out on stage or ‘if I do this people are gonna say this,’ and I realized that I was changing myself for other people and their opinions and what they were accusing me of originally, which was not being myself and being forced, that’s what I was tuning into because I was so occupied with what people thought about me, but the second I deleted the apps off my phone, I was mentally so much clearer because you’re doing what makes you happy.”

As a result, she admitted that she had not seen much of the backlash in relation to her controversial sex scene on Swarm.

You can watch a clip from the interview above.

New music from Greta Van Fleet is here. Today (April 7), the band has announced their third studio album, Starcatcher, which is set to arrive this summer.

Ahead of the album, Greta Van Fleet has shared “Meeting The Master,” an existential new single on which, lead vocalist Josh Kizka embarks on a spiritual journey.

“What a day to meet the master / I’ve been waiting for so long / Final day to meet the master / It’s my time to go home,” sings Josh over a simple guitar-driven track.

Starcatcher was recorded in Nashville, alongside producer Dave Cobb. According to a press statement accompanied by the album announcement, Starcatcher encapsulates the energy in Greta Van Fleet’s live performances.

“We didn’t really have to force or be intense about writing, because everything that happened was very instinctual,” said the band’s guitarist, Jake Kizka. “If anything, the record is our perspective and sums up where we are as a group and individually as musicians.”

The album is said to tell a story symbolic of the duality that exists within the human condition. It spans 10 tracks, each of which is part of a bigger concept.

We had this idea that we wanted to tell these stories to build a universe,” said Danny Wagner, the band’s drummer. “We wanted to introduce characters and motifs and these ideas that would come about here and there throughout our careers through this world.”

You can listen to “Meeting The Master” above see the Starcatcher artwork and tracklist below.

1. “Fate Of The Faithful”
2. “Waited All Your Life”
3. “The Falling Sky”
4. “Sacred The Thread”
5. “Runway Blues”
6. “The Indigo Streak”
7. “Frozen Light”
8. “The Archer”
9. “Meeting The Master”
10. “Farewell For Now”

Starcatcher is out 7/21 via Lava and Republic Records. Find more information here.

JP Saxe dropped his new single, “I Don’t Miss You,” today. With some stacked production credits from Malay and co-songwriting/guitar from John Mayer, Saxe shows that he’s worth working with — taking listeners through his struggle to move on from a relationship.

“I can’t say that I expected / Just how many moments where we’d still be so connected / You sneak up on my imagination / And the worst possible situations,” he sings, later into the track. “And my conscience is flooded / But I don’t think much of it / It’s subconscious and sudden / So I don’t let it mean anything.”

Saxe tries to shut his emotions down, but routinely proves to be unsuccessful — and he’s described the song a similar way, through a press statement in Rolling Stone.

“‘I Don’t Miss You’ is me trying to lie to myself about my feelings — how I distract myself from them, how I compartmentalize them, and how I ultimately lose to them,” Saxe said about the song. “My guiding principle in my songwriting is ‘am I’m telling the truth’, so a song that’s lying to itself may seem a tad antithetical, but the truth is, trying to hide from how I feel about people is a common and futile adventure inside my head, and I’m excited for this song to bring people into that with me.”

Check out JP Saxe’s “I Don’t Miss You” above.